We supplied her genetic building blocks, but fate arranged them into a new being.
This heroic sacrifice is promptly and abundantly rewarded by the fates, who arrange that the mother should be struck down and killed by an automobile.
"I remember what I thought then: A situation that a novelist would have to build up slowly, gradually, through a number of chapters, over months or perhaps years, fate has arranged in minutes, in a few strokes.
He is shot in the leg for his pains, while Bug's father meets a worse fate: Michael arranges to have him killed by Chris Partlow, the chief hitman of drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield.
When a Georgetown resident popped up in my list, it seemed like fate and we arranged to meet.
The War on Christmas seems to have come along around a hundred years later, with the publication of "The International Jew," by Henry Ford, the automobile magnate, whom fate later punished by arranging to have his fortune diverted to the sappy, do-gooder Ford Foundation.
McNair ordered him to form a committee – the Swing Board – composed of United States Army Air Forces, parachute and glider infantry, and artillery officers to arrange a large-scale maneuver that would effectively decide the fate of the divisional-sized airborne force.
She is by temperament a tough-minded girl -- Lee never tries to convince us her hard shell is solely the product of her wartime ordeal -- and her capacity to leave even the most cherished people and possessions behind helps get her through the trials fate, or history, has arranged.
What distinguishes the films of both eras is their unembarrassed interest in a spiritual dimension, not just in the continuing presence of the departed but in the probing of the suspicion that our lives have been arranged by fate, by the coincidences that are not coincidences and by the near-misses of which we may not even be aware.
Over the next three years, the fates of those soldiers will be revealed by archivists and conservators at the New York Public Library as they arrange, repair and hand-wash an enormous collection of Civil War documents known as the United States Sanitary Commission Records.
